Is The GOP Race Over?

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   Hmmmm, I think you're misrepresenting when you say he built a single dam. That was kinda a big project. No he did not take limited actions. You also grossly misrepresent when you say he passed a tariff, again it was kinda a major tariff. 

Look at Hoover's own words during his campaign.

We might 
                  have done nothing. That would have been utter ruin. Instead 
                  we met the situation with proposals to private business and 
                  to Congress of the most gigantic program of economic defense 
                  and counterattack ever evolved in the history of the Republic. 
                  We put it into action.... No government in Washington has hitherto 
                  considered that it held so broad a responsibility for leadership 
                  in such times.... For the first time in the history of depression, 
                  dividends, profits, and the cost of living, have been reduced 
                  before wages have suffered.... They were maintained until the 
                  cost of living had decreased and the profits had practically 
                  vanished. They are now the highest real wages in the world.
                Creating 
                  new jobs and giving to the whole system a new breath of life; 
                  nothing has ever been devised in our history which has done 
                  more for ... "the common run of men and women." Some of the 
                  reactionary economists urged that we should allow the liquidation 
                  to take its course until we had found bottom.... We determined 
                  that we would not follow the advice of the bitter-end liquidationists 
                  and see the whole body of debtors of the United States brought 
                  to bankruptcy and the savings of our people brought to destruction

I don't feel like going into lists and lists of what he did. Just google it. Hundreds of millions of low interest loans to farmers, established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, massively expanded public works spending and federal salaries, doubled the estate tax, raised income tax by 40%, introduced a check tax. The most influential member of FDR's stupid braintrust, or one of the top 3, Tugwell said the entire New Deal came from what Hoover initiated. 

What's the point of laws. People always break them. Your argument makes no sense. Your critiques of capitalism are non-sense. 